WHITE, C.

Operated by J & L PARTNERS (P-5 427664) in the WHITES BAYOU (F-15) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 10448District 03Field 97017250OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$286 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
88
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 8 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1973-02-23
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition17,530 bbl$286,142
Casinghead gasProduction36 Mcf$0
Total$286,142

36 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (2)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 29.8285, -94.6368. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

29.82850, -94.63684 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
8,527 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
26.2 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

Between 8,525 and 8,529 ft, median 8,527 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1973 – Apr 1974
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2000
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.2 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.0 years and 26.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-071302242 L8,529 ftApr 1974Jan 2000Yes
42-071302181 U8,525 ftJun 1973Jan 2000Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (88)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

88 months

Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 200050027.622.73$1,381
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199816109.201.77$1,481
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998188012.421.97$2,335
Sep 1998177012.592.08$2,228
Aug 1998171011.301.91$1,932
Jul 1998353011.742.24$4,144
Jun 1998165011.242.24$1,855
May 1998179012.622.21$2,259
Apr 1998176013.042.51$2,295
Mar 1998228012.802.31$2,918
Feb 1998184013.952.30$2,567
Jan 1998309014.702.15$4,542
Dec 1997173016.322.41$2,823
Nov 1997363018.193.09$6,603
Oct 1997184019.253.15$3,542
Sep 1997184017.742.95$3,264
Aug 1997180017.862.55$3,215
Jul 1997320017.582.25$5,626
Jun 1997178017.242.26$3,069
May 1997324018.972.31$6,146
Apr 1997352017.882.08$6,294
Mar 1997354018.951.94$6,708
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996140023.32$3,265
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996188023.31$4,382
Sep 1996146022.22$3,244
Aug 1996166020.26$3,363
Jul 1996331019.55$6,471
Jun 1996364018.73$6,818
May 1996175019.43$3,400
Apr 1996190021.51$4,087
Mar 1996316019.38$6,124
Feb 1996351016.98$5,960
Jan 1996173017.07$2,953
Dec 1995321117.19$5,518
Nov 1995355116.00$5,680
Oct 1995158115.43$2,438
Sep 1995183116.18$2,961
Aug 1995182115.92$2,897
Jul 1995287115.24$4,374
Jun 1995358116.41$5,875
May 1995349117.56$6,128
Apr 1995330117.73$5,851
Mar 1995521116.44$8,565
Feb 1995176116.58$2,918
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994178115.29$2,722
Aug 1994261116.13$4,210
Jul 1994174117.56$3,055
Jun 1994170117.09$2,905
May 1994348115.88$5,526
Apr 1994191114.14$2,701
Mar 1994374112.46$4,660
Feb 1994177112.50$2,213
Jan 1994477112.66$6,039
Dec 1993521112.33$6,424
Nov 1993375114.49$5,434
Oct 1993644115.85$10,207
Sep 1993353115.03$5,306
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993339115.46$5,241
Jun 1993630116.79$10,578
May 1993367117.68$6,489
Apr 1993341118.05$6,155
Mar 1993346118.14$6,276
Feb 1993178117.90$3,186
Jan 1993373116.93$6,315

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Feb 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   50 bbl  × $ 27.62 =     $1,381
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.73 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,381

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 03/O/10448 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.